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In 2018 we completed phase two of works for the same client to their home in Hampstead, having previously worked with them on their Notting Hill apartment 'Lancaster House'. It's lovely working with the same clients consistently over 5 years.
This apartment occupies three floors of a Grade II listed former shop building on Pond St, Hampstead. The building went through a major alteration by previous architects in the 1990s which created this apartment by carving out the former shop on the ground floor and the cellar below, making three floors where there were previously only two . A dramatic but not particularly practical 3-storey void had been created, over which all of the major habitable rooms looked, which made the rooms hard to inhabit and rather noisy for a young family. Phase 1 formed a new bedroom in what used to be the top floor of the void, and phase 2 created a new kitchen at the base of the void, placing the kitchen at the heart of the home, leaving further away spaces to offer tranquil sitting rooms, bedroom and a study.
Our re-organisation added substantial value to the apartment, both in terms of finance and experience.
1860 OLD SHOP HOUSE
Hampstead, London
2015-18
DG
For the cabinets we used a palette of oak, white/grey-veined marble and brass. The cabinet fronts are all Tintab high-quality plywood with a thick (4mm) top veneer of oak, matching the solid oak parquet floor. The wet area worktop, sink and splashback is a single piece of Corian (a high-tech mixture of resin and marble dust). The walls are a warm grey lime-wash. The brass cladding conceals deep cupboards and reflects the south light from the ground floor window deep down into the cellar kitchen.
